Please note the extended deadline (March 20, 2004) on the enclosed callfor papers for next year's issue of Michigan Feminist Studies. The journalwelcomes contributions from all disciplines, and particularly encouragesinternational scholars and graduate students to submit.

Please note that this year's call also invites submissions for book andfilm reviews, as well as visual materials, related to the topic "WithinHostile Borders."

This issue will consider how feminist work constructs a politics of locationwithin and against global and local narratives that construct ideological,political or representational borders hostile to those living within. Wewelcome contributions from all disciplines.

We also invite book and film reviews related to this topic as well as visualmaterials which may be considered for reproduction on the cover of thisvolume.

Topics may include:

feminization / femininity / the 'feminine' on the borders(trans)gendering bordersproductive borders: imagining communities, creating and contestingidentitiesforeign nationals constructing a politics of locationlaw-making on / of the bordersborders and labor in the new world economywarfare and the production of (gendered) bordersmobile territories and gendered mapslanguage of the border (linguistic or generic deconstructions)mobility, traffic, contamination, and gender: how borders are shifted andredefinedsexual / economic exchanges across borderslabor, sexuality, and traffic of bodies across and between bordersborderlands, borderlines, and hybrid territorieshistoricizing borderlands: stories / histories from the edgesmilitarized subjects creating and crossing borders(un)bounded geographies? : trade, travel, pilgrimage, warfare, colonization

Michigan Feminist Studies is an annual publication edited by graduatestudents at the University of Michigan. MFS particularly encouragesinterdisciplinary submissions, and has published papers in manydisciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, literature,language & linguistics, science studies, history, philosophy, arthistory, film, political science,and education. Graduate students,independent scholars and activists are invited to apply.

Manuscripts should be 4000-6000 words, and double-spaced. Please submitthree single-sided copies, and include a 150-200 word abstract, briefbiographical note, institutional and departmental affiliation, address,telephone number, and e-mail address. Papers may be submitted in theaccepted format of your academic discipline (e.g., MLA, APA). If yourpaper is selected, you will be asked to submit an electronic file.